Winter storms
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Winter storms
Is this supposed to be a joke? 170-200km/h (10-12). It's completely silent at this moment.
http://www.unwetterzentrale.de/uwz/index.html
http://www.unwetterzentrale.de/uwz/index.html
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It's the "Ruhe vor dem Sturm":
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,460452,00.html
I'm afraid it's not a joke. I hope Hamburg is prepared this time.
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,460452,00.html
I'm afraid it's not a joke. I hope Hamburg is prepared this time.
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Latest wind reading here is 50 mph. The neighbors have a large topiary cat on their garden wall that is really rocking about. Hope the winds die down before the cat pulls the wall down.
Makes you glad this wasn't happening a month ago...Christmas decorations would be flying all over the place! Fortunately, there are no large trees near us, but I do worry a little about the overhead power lines. Also power...already 25,000 people in Berkshire have lost their power. Although our winds are supposed to start dying down this afternoon...but apparently they'll be picking up speed in the north.
Makes you glad this wasn't happening a month ago...Christmas decorations would be flying all over the place! Fortunately, there are no large trees near us, but I do worry a little about the overhead power lines. Also power...already 25,000 people in Berkshire have lost their power. Although our winds are supposed to start dying down this afternoon...but apparently they'll be picking up speed in the north.
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet in southern Australia, there hasn't been a decent day's rain in over three months. In the state of Victoria, bushfires have been raging since mid-December, and it was announced today that 20% of the state's area has been burnt. And the fires are yet to be controlled! So, if you can spare some of that European rain, it would be much appreciated!
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It's got its good side.
Quite a lot of trees have been falling down over the past week. So some on the edges of estates have brought fences or walls down with them.
I've just narrowly missed a whole family of deer (about a dozen of them) who'd meandered - in broad daylight - through one of these new gaps and were happily trying to eat their way through all the vegetation along what's normally a busy road. One look at the flannermobile and they got all shy again and ran back into the deerpark.
Oh, and Thames Water have finally lifted the hosepipe ban. I was beginning to get really worried we ought to be watering the lawn.
Quite a lot of trees have been falling down over the past week. So some on the edges of estates have brought fences or walls down with them.
I've just narrowly missed a whole family of deer (about a dozen of them) who'd meandered - in broad daylight - through one of these new gaps and were happily trying to eat their way through all the vegetation along what's normally a busy road. One look at the flannermobile and they got all shy again and ran back into the deerpark.
Oh, and Thames Water have finally lifted the hosepipe ban. I was beginning to get really worried we ought to be watering the lawn.
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I hasn't really started up to now in downtown Munich, no rain at all. You hear the whistling sound just now and then but it's not continuous. They say the maximun will be past midnight and it'll last for 3 hours. The Bahn has stopped operating, so quite many people are stranded.